Mr. Merunka, I want to ask you a question about the future of Novoslovienskij. I would just like to hear your opinion about whether or not this language will see a widespread use in the future? Do the goals set for this language even have potential of realization?

My second question would be: in what way does Novoslovienskij differ from Slovianski? Apart from their origin that is. And which one is more easier/practical?

And thirdly, I noticed that you have a link to a Veneti page on your website. Though I have been reading on the Venetic origin of the Slavic languages for a long time now, I have found it insufficient and I'm in a process of developing my own theory. If you are interested I could write a short article for your website in a form of thesis.

Delodephius wrote:Mr. Merunka, I want to ask you a question about the future of Novoslovienskij. I would just like to hear your opinion about whether or not this language will see a widespread use in the future? Do the goals set for this language even have potential of realization?

I do not know, but there are some promising things:1) Interest and little support from E.U. authorities. (We had an E.U. project this year and plan new one: http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingd ... &cid=24601)2) Interest of people from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Dept. of turism.3) Usability of the NS language as a tool for automatic machine translation between slavic languages. For example: ISO standards will be translated into NS, which all slavic language translations will be generated automatically from.4) Interest of czech sanskirt experts - they say that NS language has enough of syntactical power to traslate from sanskirt automatically and loss-less. This could be very inovative, because there is yet no modern euro language having this feature.5) market, business, turism - short texts, guides, plans, etc. 6) a tool how to enable culture of special slavic languages to the others. For example, this is hot case for Lusatian Sorbs in Germany. 7) A tool for easier learning slavic languages. You start with NS in order to have easier and faster learning-curve of the target slavic language. Using NS you can passively understand faster other slavic language.

Delodephius wrote:My second question would be: in what way does Novoslovienskij differ from Slovianski? Apart from their origin that is. And which one is more easier/practical?

Languages evolved parallelly, but now our teams collaborate. We will have the same dictionary of modern words and we have the same internal code. Look here: http://steen.free.fr/slovianski/nauczny ... ansky.html This is not yet ready nor perfect, but we seriously want to share words. NS can be regarded as a super-set of Slovianski. (In mathematical way):NS has vocative, 5 verbal participles, 6 verbal tenses, etc. Moreover, Slovianski does not have elaborated morphology like construction of sentences and subordinate clauses, adjectives and non-conforming attributes etc.

For translation of professional (law, sci, math, hist, natur, ...) texts, knowledge transfer, ... Slovianski is not enough. But it could serve well in basic conversation situations.

I do not know, maybe in the future we will have only one language having more smoothly ordered morphological levels.

Delodephius wrote:And thirdly, I noticed that you have a link to a Veneti page on your website. Though I have been reading on the Venetic origin of the Slavic languages for a long time now, I have found it insufficient and I'm in a process of developing my own theory. If you are interested I could write a short article for your website in a form of thesis.

Oh yes, I have read this book in Slovenian, but I do not have it. There were interesting language similarities between paleoslavic and venetian and etruscan I remember. This is a nice theory about protoslavic continuum in the ancient age spread from bohemian area through the entire river of Danube up to Balkan and south Ukraine. Also, there are some paleographic evidences, but total number of usable things is too small. Yes, please, write this thesis. The best place for it is Facebook, Novoslovienskij jazyk group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=347726497752).

4) Interest of czech sanskirt experts - they say that NS language has enough of syntactical power to traslate from sanskirt automatically and loss-less. This could be very inovative, because there is yet no modern euro language having this feature.

Yes, I have been reading on Slavic-Sanskrit similarities in the past, I even have a book about common words between Slavic languages and Sanskrit, well just volume one out of three. I also have a quite a lengthy book about possible Indo-Aryan influence on Proto-Slavic languages. I'll mention something of it in my thesis.

For translation of professional (law, sci, math, hist, natur, ...) texts, knowledge transfer, ... Slovianski is not enough. But it could serve well in basic conversation situations.

Well that was my speculation too. I imagine that Slovianski being an artificial language would be limited in one way or another, while Novoslovianski being based on an evolved though archaic language would have a more developed terminology.

I'll write my thesis in a few months. I am not a professor nor have I been to college. I'm just an amateur researcher. Just to mention that, so no one expects too much of me.

This is an interesting project! I'm a native speaker of Slovenian, living 20km from Croatian border. I also learned Russian and spent some time in .ru. I did understand the stories you posted - but those three languages are quite different in terms of vocabulary.

The problem arises, not with understanding, but with producing content. Maybe it would be best if you popularized the language by translating the user interfaces of popular open source software (like phpBB or Joomla frontend).